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In this session, we discuss what tools can be used to create an affiliate marketing site that will display an advertisement for a period of time. The easiest way to do it is by using the AdRotate Plugin, we also discuss other features of this plugin that could be essential for your records and tracking.

After we download the cufon font and upload it to the website, we write the PHP functions to Thesis. The first function adds the script that will load the cufon font. The next function calls the replacement script that will tell the web browser which selectors are to be replaced by the cufon. And the [...]

In this session, we demonstrate how to make the Thesis content page width smaller than the header area width. You can easily accomplish this by using one of our plugins, the BYOB Thesis Full Width Backgrounds Plugin. When you install the plugin, you just need to set the #header width to be larger and the [...]

In this session, we show how to align images with text in the WordPress Text Editor without using CSS. You can do this by adding vertical space in the advanced settings of edit image on your WordPress Text editor.

In this session, we demonstrate how to manually create a development copy of your Live WordPress Site on a subdomain that can be used for testing your customization before editing your actual website. First, we create the subdomain that we will be using as the development site. Then we copy all files in the live [...]

In this session, we give you another example of how to create a development copy of website using Go Daddy. How to Create a Development Copy of your Live WordPress Site on a Subdomain – Part 1 – Copy the Existing Site How to Create a Development Copy of your Live WordPress Site on a [...]

In this session, we show to add an unordered list for a vertical navigation menu then we place it in a text widget.

In this session, we discuss how you can speed up your website by analyzing it using the Firefox Addon YSlow and what information you can get using this tool.

In this session, we discuss what you can track in Google Analytics and how to track conversions from AWeber Opt-ins. To do this a destination URL is created and given to Google, so it can track the success rate. Then we show how to set up the Google Analytics goals.

In this session, we talk about and add the specific tags that Facebook will get when you share the post. These are the Title, Image, URL, Description and Site Name. How to Add Facebook Open Graph Tags in Thesis – Part 1- Understand the Problem How to Add Facebook Open Graph Tags in Thesis – [...]

In this session, we discuss what google can track in google analytics ecommerce. You can set up google analytics to track all your sales for each of your products, the source of your sales, type of visitor, duration of transaction and lots of other things. This gives you an understanding of when people get to [...]

In this session, we show how to use Google Analytics to see how your visitors move on your site. You can see where people came from and where are they going on your site. There’s a lot of data that you can track in google. We also discuss Split Testing where you can test two [...]

In this session, we show how to set up a PayPal subscription button that will have a payment option. A member had a browser problem that occurred while setting this up and we show how to fix that here. The code is shown below. Code used in this lesson

In this session, we create another shortcode function that is a variation on our original using a different attribute of the Custom Post Meta. Code used in this lesson Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 1 – Understanding the Problem Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 2 – WordPress Tools to Solve the [...]

In this session, we describe how to recreate a similar function to what we just created with a different post type. Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 1 – Understanding the Problem Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 2 – WordPress Tools to Solve the Problem Custom Post Type Case Study – Part [...]

In this session, we add another Custom Post Meta of “Court References” to the Custom Post Type “Course Case”. Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 1 – Understanding the Problem Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 2 – WordPress Tools to Solve the Problem Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 3 – [...]

In this session, we continue the discussion from our session on How to Display a Phone Number as a Link that Mobile Devices Can Call where we show the structure of a telephone link tag. Here we add the telephone link tag to a widget so that it displays in the Thesis header. We do [...]

In this session, we discuss how to create a WordPress website that works with Smart Phones and other mobile devices. The design used is called Responsive Design which allows websites to respond to the size of the device browser window being used.

In part 2 of this series on Using Post Formats in Thesis, we show how to enable the Post Formats with code (add_theme_support for post-formats that you want support for) that has to be added to your custom_functions.php file. Then we show how you pick the format you want when you are editing or creating [...]

In part 4 of this series on Using Post Formats in Thesis, we add a custom body class to the post format so that you can add different styles to a specific format. Code used in this lesson is shown below. Code used in this lesson

In this session, a member asks how to optimize the SEO benefits of images. We discuss the work involved vs the payoff for putting images in a descriptive subdirectory. We suggest a more time manageable way of giving your images an SEO benefit.

In this session, we discuss some recommendations for a local file structure and I show how I organizes our files for BYOBWebsite on my local computer.

In this session, we show how to add Thesis Post Meta to the Custom Post Type that we created. The code that we use to add the Thesis Post Meta to the custom post type is displayed here above the video. Code used in this lesson Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 1 – [...]

In this session, we finish discussing the development of our Custom Post Type and show how to create custom post type content using the Custom Post Type UI Plugin. Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 1 – Understanding the Problem Custom Post Type Case Study – Part 2 – WordPress Tools to Solve the [...]